ATTENTION: TICKETS NO LONGER AVAILABLE IN ADVANCE. BUT WILL BE SELLING THEM AT THE DOOR TONIGHT!

Friday, 17 February, 2012

11 Featured Cage Compositions Performed by
FearNoMusic & Select Collaborators

YU
800 SE 10TH AVE, Portland, OR

Doors at 7pm, Performances From 8pm to 11pm

Tickets: $25 (general); $12.50 (students); $15 (seniors)

John Cage is an old instrument. Sensitive, unpredictable, and belovedly dead, but hoping the instrument might make new utterance, we celebrate its 100th birthday. Please join us on the 17th of February at 8:00 p.m. as we present ten live Cage compositions throughout our overly large building.

John Cage is a titan of avant-garde music, and in some ways this can be the kiss of death because it becomes easy to regard him as yet another sepia tinted canonical musician. He’s an adjective—“Cageian”—and now, we’re stuck with a kind of cool problem: How do you modify someone’s work when it’s become a modifier for other work? John Milton Cage Jr., the normal up and walking around guy, was born in Los Angeles in 1912. He died in 1992. For more information please see Cage’s own books, Silence: Lectures and Writings (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan, 1961), X: Writings ’79–’82 (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan, 1983), and Alex Ross’ The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (New York: Picador, 2007).

$25 general admission, $12 students, $15 seniors. Tickets may be available at YU the night of the performance, but advance purchase is highly recommended. Minors must be accompanied by parent or legal guardian. To order by phone: (503) 236-7996. Student and senior tickets are only available to purchase in person at outlets or on the evening of the event at YU. Students: limit 1 per student with current school ID. Seniors: adults over the age of 62 with valid drivers license or ID, limit 1 per customer.

To Purchase in person:

Stand Up Comedy
811 E Burnside St #111
Portland, OR 97214
Hours: Tue-Sat 12-7, Sun 12-6

Mississippi Records
4007 North Mississippi Avenue
Portland, OR 97227
Hours: Mon-Sun 12--7

Exiled Records
4628 SE Hawthorne Blvd
Portland, OR 97215
Hours: Tue-Sat 11-7, Sun 12-5

Clinton Street Records and Stereo
2510 SE Clinton Street
Portland OR 97202
Hours: Tue-Fri 1-7, Sat-Sun 11-7

Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave
Portland, OR 97202
Hours: 11-6, Monday thru Saturday

Tickets also available at the door, YU: February 17, 7PM.